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Eleventh Hour : The Politics of Policy Initiatives in Presidential Transitions /

Pres. Jimmy Carter issued last-minute rules immediately before leaving the White House, creating frustration for the incoming Reagan Administration. As George W. Bush prepared to cede the Oval Office to Barack Obama almost three decades later, he ordered more than thirty last-minute policy changes,...

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Autor principal: Shafie, David M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Political cycles and the president's agenda
  • Lame ducks and unilateralism
  • Jimmy Carter's unfinished agenda
  • Ronald Reagan: policy retrenchment in a friendly takeover
  • George H.W. Bush: twilight time for the deregulation revolution
  • Bill Clinton's last campaign
  • Bush, Cheney, and midnight deregulation
  • Conclusion: digging in and running out the clock
  • Appendix: Economically significant fourth-quarter rules.